Coleen Rooney has disputed "misleading" claims made in the High Court by Rebekah Vardy, who is challenging the "sheer magnitude" of costs she has to pay the former as a result of 2022's Wagatha libel trial.

Now, the whole sensational affair is being made into a play, Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, to be performed at Wyndham’s Theatre this month. As director Lisa Spirling argues, it was only a matter of time before somebody adapted this most explosive of dramas for the stage.